Here's Some Stupid For Lunch

The state of Mississippi serves up a two-course blue plate special today. First, Governor Phil Bryant signs a bill that gets the state all tangled up in that whole "public accommodations" thing that worked out so well for it in another context back in the 1960s.

Bryant signed the measure within hours of receiving it Thursday, during a private ceremony. The bill says government cannot put a substantial burden on the practice of religion. Though the bill is vaguely worded, supporters said an example of would be a zoning law to limit the location of a church, mosque or synagogue but not limiting the location of a secular business. The small signing ceremony was attended by a few elected officials, lobbyists for the state's influential Southern Baptist Convention and Tony Perkins, president of Family Research Council. The council, a conservative Washington-based group, has pushed states to enact laws that mirror the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act that President Bill Clinton signed in 1993.

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I note the lack of business leaders invited to the signing ceremony, and this in a state that pretty much become one of the country's poster children for being a really big 'ho when it comes to a "business-friendly climate."

The sexytime really seems to drive the state a bit crazy. Elsewhere, the teaching of sex-education seems to have taken an alarming turn in the area of visual aids.

The new curriculum in Oxford has teachers giving Peppermint Patties to the students, having them unwrap them, and then passing them around. Once the piece of chocolate makes it around the classroom, students are told that when they have sex, they're like that dirty piece of candy. Barnard said: "They're using the Peppermint Pattie to show that a girl is no longer clean or valuable after she's had sex - that she's been used. That shouldn't be the lesson we send kids about sex." This comparison to dirty objects is nothing new. Other schools have made analogies to toothbrushes or sticks of gum. One Texas sex education guide explains: "Encourage students to stay like a new toothbrush, wrapped up and unused. People want to marry a virgin, just like they want a virgin toothbrush or stick of gum."

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Not only is this crazy, and insulting to women and all other sentient primates, but it guarantees that, his honor offended, Charlie Brown is going to come down there and kick everybody's ass.